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ISAAC CHALKLEY GOULD, 0F LONDON, ENGLAND.

CA'SE OR HOLDER FOR LETTERS, Soc.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 526,779, dated October2, 1894.

Application filed May Zl, 1894.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IsAAc OHALKLEY GOULD, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain and Ireland, residing at 52 Old Bailey, in the city ofLondon, England, have invented Improvements in Cases or I-Iolders forLetters and other Loose Sheets of Paper or other Material, of Which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in cases or holders(hereinafter referred to as holders) for letters and other loose sheetsof paper or other material (hereinafter referred to as loose papers),the object being to provide means whereby loose papers within theholder, will, when the latter is placed upright, become automaticallyheld in place and prevented from becoming disarranged. For this purposeI provide the holder with a hinged or pivoted plate or fiap (hereinaftercalled a flap), so arranged that its free end will bear against paperswithin the holder, when the latter stands on edge likeabook, a slidingpiece, that may resemble a button or stud and is hereinafter called asliding button, being applied to the flap, or to a fixed part-cover, insuch a way as to act by gravity when the holder is placed upright, andturn the flap about its hinge or pivot, thereby causing its free end topress against the papers in the holder and so retain them in place.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures l and 2 are elevatios at rightangles to each other, showing a holder constructed according to thisinvention, the said holder being shown in its open position. Fig. 3 is aface view to i a larger scale of the hinged fiap with sliding button.Figs. 4 and 5 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2 of the inner case of amodified form of a holder with my improvements applied thereto; and Fig.6 is a `perspective view of the outer case into which the said innercase is adapted to slide. Figs. 7 and 8 are similar views to Figs. 1 and2 respectively, illustrating two modified arrangements. Fig. 9 is across section of an inner case similar to that shown in Fig. 4,illustrating a further modified arrangement.

The holder l shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 resembles externally a book andis provided with a hinged cover and side. Within it is a metal plate orfiap 2 hinged at or near that edge 3* of the lower side 3 of the holderwhich Serial No. 511,961. (No model.)

is next the hinged cover or lid 4 when closed. The flap is formedlengthwise with a slot to receive the neck of a stud-like piece hereincalled the sliding button, made of suiiciently heavy material, such asbone, ivory or metal, which is free to slide in such slot.

To enable the sliding button to be fitted in the slot, I form the slotof a uniform width throughout and so bend or spring the two parts of theplate in Which it is formed, that the sliding button can be readilysprung into place in the slot, after which the plate is caused to assumeits normal fiat state.

Between the hinged cover or lid 4 of the holder and the fiap 2, a piece7, of wood or other material issecured, it may be by glueing orotherwise fixing it to the edges of the top and bottom sides 3, Sa ofthe holder in such a manner that it forms a part cover with its innersurface contiguous to the hinged or pivoted end of the fiap 2. The side9 of the holder is hinged to enable the papers, which are arrangedbetween the fiap and the back or bottom of holder, to be easily removedand replaced. It may conveniently be held in its closed position by aclip 10 attached to the lid 4, or by a lock, or by a rim projecting fromthe lid 4.

By the construction described, it will be readily understood thatuponthe holder being placed in an upright position, the sliding button 6will fall by gravity and wedge itself between the inner surface of thepart cover 7 and the flap 2, the free end of which will thus be causedto bear against the papers within the holder and firmly retain them inplace.

In the arrangement shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the holder comprises aninner case or receptacle for loose papers shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and anouter case shown in Fig. 6, that may have the external shape of a bookand in which the inner case can slide. The said inner case is formedwith an opening 11 at one side, its top side 12 being somewhat narrowerthan its bottom side 13, and the ends 14, 14 being beveled to enablepapers within the case to be readily got at. The slotted' fiap 2 withsliding button 6 is hinged within this inner case in the same manner asin the above described arrangement, the button acting against the side12.

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15 is a loop of flexible material by means of whichthe inner case can bereadily withdrawn from the outer one.

Holders according to this invention can be variously modified. Thus thesliding button 6 instead of being' arranged to slide in a slot in theflap 2, may, as shown in Fig. 7, be arran ged to slide in a slot 5* inthe part cover 7,

thesaid flap, in this case, being plain; or the i part cover 7 may bedi'sp'en'sed with, as shown in Fig. 8, the sliding button 6 carried bythe flap then wedging itself, When the holder is placed upright, betweenthe flap 2 and the cover or lid 4 of the holder; or the sliding but- 1ton might be adapted to slide in guides 16 formed with or attached tothe part cover, as

shown in Fig. 9.

invention may be provided with more than one flap and the fiaps, or voneof them, maybe hinged to the part cover 7, or sidel2 as the case may be,instead 'of to the end 3as in the above described arrangements. Eachflap may v if desired, be provided with morev than one sliding button.

What I claim is- 1. In a holder 'for letters and other loose sheets, ahinged or pivoted flap adapted toI bear against the letters or otherloose sheets,

and a sliding piece adapted to act bygravity i against said flap,substantially as herein described for the purpose specified.

2. In a holder for letters and other loose sheets, the combination of aVnormally fixed part, a hinged flap adapted to bear against the loosesheets, and a sliding piece adapted when the holder is turned on end, toact by gravity against said fixed part and flap and hold the latter inits operative position substantially as herein 'described.

3; In a holder for loose papers, the combination of a part cover, ahinged flap, and a slidingpiece arranged to work in a slot in one ofsaid parts and act by gravity against the other 'substantially as hereindescribed.

4. vA holder for letters and other loose papers comprising a holderIproper having a hinged4 cover and side, a fixed part cover, Ia a islotted hinged flap arranged to bear upon loose As will be obvious,holders according to this I 'papers within said holder, and a slidingbutton carried by said flap Vand arranged to act by gravity against saidpart cover substan tially as herein described for the purposeEspecified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my i name to this specificatiou inthe presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ISAAC OHALKLEY GOULD.

Witnesses:

i ERNEsT PEWTREss, '51 Old Bat'lcy, London.

ARUNDEL EVERSHED,

' 19 Northolme Rol., Ht'ghbury, London.

